Summer Air-Travel Survival Guide

The forecast calls for heavy frustration with a 50% chance of innovation at U.S. airports this summer.

Airport crowds are expected to be the largest in the U.S. since 2008. There's already concern that budget cuts in Transportation Security Administration overtime will lead to longer security-screening lines. Atlanta's airport said wait times from an apparent TSA staffing shortage stretched to 70 minutes on a recent Friday, and both...